"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Were you two good friends?
Were you too good of friends?
Was it rough at the beginning?
Was it tough at the end?
Was it time well spent?
Did she seem hell-bent
On destruction, interruption
Of some time well spent?
Were you two enemies?
Were you too good of enemies?
Did it hurt when it began
Or just at the ending?
The time you’re spending
Seems to be bending
You head over heels, do you feel
You’re wasting this time you’re spending?
Do you see my reason, oh oh
Was she ever pleasing, oh oh
She’s oh so cold, she’s freezing, oh oh
She never really cared
So how could it be considered treason?
We were two good friends
We were too good of friends
Well, it was rough at the beginning
And was tough at the end
It wasn’t time well spent
She seemed hell-bent
On destruction, interruption
Of some time well spent
Were you two good friends?
(We were two good friends)
Were you too good of friends?
(We were too good of friends)
Was it rough at the beginning?
(It was rough at the beginning)
Was it tough at the end?
(It was tough at the end)
Was it time well spent?
(It wasn’t time well spent)
Did she seem hell-bent?
(She seemed hell-bent)
On destruction, interruption
Of some time well spent?
Were you too good of friends?
Was it rough at the beginning?
Was it tough at the end?
Was it time well spent?
Did she seem hell-bent
On destruction, interruption
Of some time well spent?
Were you two enemies?
Were you too good of enemies?
Did it hurt when it began
Or just at the ending?
The time you’re spending
Seems to be bending
You head over heels, do you feel
You’re wasting this time you’re spending?
Do you see my reason, oh oh
Was she ever pleasing, oh oh
She’s oh so cold, she’s freezing, oh oh
She never really cared
So how could it be considered treason?
We were two good friends
We were too good of friends
Well, it was rough at the beginning
And was tough at the end
It wasn’t time well spent
She seemed hell-bent
On destruction, interruption
Of some time well spent
Were you two good friends?
(We were two good friends)
Were you too good of friends?
(We were too good of friends)
Was it rough at the beginning?
(It was rough at the beginning)
Was it tough at the end?
(It was tough at the end)
Was it time well spent?
(It wasn’t time well spent)
Did she seem hell-bent?
(She seemed hell-bent)
On destruction, interruption
Of some time well spent?
Lyrics submitted by BecauseTylerKnows
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